On a rather unrelated note (apologies for the deluge of e-mails today!), the 
folks behind code.mil have responded to public feedback and are proposing 
significant changes to their approach.


Instead of wrapping an OSI license as before, they now propose to directly 
utilize an existing copyright-based open source license.  That is, they may 
actually attempt to test the theory postulated by Richard Fontana et al., 
namely that horrible things might not actually happen if the USG slaps a 
copyright-based license on their works.  Instead of wrapping the license, they 
use it straight up with an INTENT.md file to explain that what's public domain 
obviously remains as such, and what's not falls under the license.  Details 
here:



https://github.com/deptofdefense/code.mil#welcome-to-codemil---an-experiment-in-open-source-at-the-department-of-defense

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